Music Banter Hall Of Fame: Nominations Thread

Unlike most people I didn't vote him in for his prowess on the guitar. I couldn't give a stuff about that or how influential he was or whether he was the first to do something.

I voted for him because of the way he can go from playing blues to R&B to soul to rock to pop to , well noise basically. and make it sound totally effortless and still make it sound like nobody else on earth.

That's why I voted for him.
 
Yes, I would have the same feelings regardless of the band in question (I personally don't like Joy Division, but to deny their importance/value simply because of the nuraber of albums they released is ridiculous).

How many banRAB have made "eight, ten, or one hundred" very good albums? There are five or six Springsteen recorRAB that I really love, but I would place them second to the two Velvet Underground recorRAB that I really love. The recorRAB aren't "equal" in quality, even if they're all good.

Here's another example. It's cliched to say so, but I still honestly believe that Never Mind The Bollocks is the ultimate album and bests all of the albums by other punk banRAB. The Clash made two (or three) great recorRAB, Buzzcocks released some amazing singles, the Dead Kennedys made some great albums...but for me, they all pale compared to the lone Sex Pistols album. I think that's the mentatlity a lot of Joy Division fans adopt.

Longevity has nothing to do with it. It has to do with the overall quality of a given body of work. Would you rather have 25 good songs or 5 truly great songs? Yes, if the songs are of equal quality, than I suppose quantity does matter. But that's not the way music is.
 
I've voted 'no' simply because on a personal level I just can't justify having them in my top 10, never having had the seemingly obligatory Zeppelin phase. The debut is definitive, some tracks here and there; but to me they just pioneered ****-rock and Spinal Tap clich
 
Honestly, I couldn't get 'Trout Mask Replica', but my uncle gave me 'Doc at The Radar Station' and I swore it was a lost Mark E. Smith and David Byrne collaboration.
 
first the Beatles and now the Smiths... were you dropped on your head as a baby? Repeatedly? It's not on Sam mate. You'll probably come around in a couple of years, you can quote me on that (maybe not so much on the Smiths but Morrissey's voice is not an indistinct whine :mad:)

I suppose I'd better vote yes... Hopefully we can get all the usual suspects out the way and get on with the interesting stuff like Big Black, this is like reading a 'top ten artists ever' list in some MOR music mag in WHSmith waiting for the train to 'meh'

Maybe Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Beatles etc etc should all just be included from the off so people needn't waste their time nominating them? Everyone knows those banRAB are getting in. Cam ahhhhn

edit: just clocked we've covered most of the predictable stuff, I was obviously absent :D
 
Alow me to introduce you.

Example of their earlier work:

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Example of their later work:

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Chinese Democracy doesn't even deserve being a factor in this vote. Horrible album, it's not GNR. I liked their Illusion albums, and Appetite was perfect with only a few flaws. Yes for me.
 
The show must go on...

Nominated by 15Steps

Joy Division

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I think Joy Division would be a great band to nominate for the hall of fame, and there are many reasons why. My first reason being that the band has released two of the greatest albums of all times, and are basically pioneers of the post punk genre. Ian Curtis wrote some of the greatest lyrics in history and sung said lyrics with what could be the most recognizable voices in music history. Although short lived, Joy Division are known as one of the best banRAB of all time and have had a huge impact on modern music.

You know what to do...
 
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